hemlocks
Socrates' fatal drink
Hemlocks are coniferous evergreen trees with short needles and small cones, native to North America and Asia.
Hemlock also refers to a poisonous plant in the carrot family—the one famously used to execute Socrates.
The two plants are unrelated; the tree was named for the similar smell of its crushed foliage.
The cabin was shaded by towering hemlocks.
Cone-bearing tree
- evergreenRetains foliage year-round
- needlesSlender pointed instruments
- conesTapering geometric solids
- barkSharp canine vocalization
shade · forest · timber · lumber · grove · canopy · branches · foliage
conifer
Cone-bearing tree
bark · shade · forest · timber · lumber · grove · canopy · branches · foliage · softwood
Socrates
Ancient Athenian questioning philosopher
- executionCompleting a planned task
- toxinBiological-origin harm agent
- alkaloidNitrogenous plant compound
deadly · poisonous · paralysis · death · ancient Greece · suicide · fatal · ingestion · philosopher · condemned
Keats
English Romantic poet
melancholy · poetry · romantic · opiate · dull · pains · stupor · forgetfulness · torpor · dreamlike
- forest featurespine trees, redwoods, old-growth forest, oak trees, sequoias
- AdirondacksLake Placid, Blue Mountain, Marcy, wilderness areas, lean-tos
- mountainsmountain, peaks, peak, summit, summits
- spore plantsferns, fern, mosses, liverwort, hornwort
- Susquehanna RegionSusquehanna River, Harrisburg, Williamsport, Northumberland, Wilkes-Barre
hemlockshardwoods
Dense deciduous lumber types
broadleaves · flowering trees · angiosperms · oaks · maples
hemlocksedible plants
Consumable botanical matter
medicinal herbs · food crops · salad greens · culinary herbs · parsley
- poison hemlockToxic flowering plant
- water hemlockDeadly aquatic flowering plant
- hemlock treesGenus Tsuga conifers
- hemlock forestGrove of tsuga trees
- western hemlockNorthwest coastal conifer